·TH flTCLl\N
AKRON EDITION
PROTECT OUR GOOD NAME
\ 'ol. 29 AKRON. OHCO. WEDNESDAY, XO\'KMBER 20, 1940 To. 24
Annual Christmas Party Set for Saturday, December 21 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-=~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-=:__~~~~·
Veteran Back I OPEN BASKETBALL I
·----SEASON AT HOME
Howard Vocke will play for­ward.
DRUM MAJORETTES
WILL PIROUETTE
IN GOODYEAR GYM
Heights Recreation Ass'n
Will Repeat Show Which
Made Big Hit Last Year
Gooclycar Heights Recreation
Ass 'n, which made a ten-strike
a year ago by staging a contest
of°high school bands, drum majors
and 111njorettes a t Goodyear Ha ll,
will stage a similar show there
this year on Dec. 6.
All t en public high schools and
St. Vincent's will be represented,
a nd again it is expected that the
g,rn1na sium will be filled, so come
ea rly . The basketball bleachers
will be in place for tho game on
tho following night and Bob Wil­son,
popul ar 'A'ADC announcer ,
wi 11 cove1· the · ev ent by loud
s peak er .
WITH DUQUESNE U
New Wlngfoot Squad Is
Strong, But it Will Have
to Be, Against Tough
Opponents
Opening their 1940-41
National Basketball league
season at Oshkosh Nov. 27
and following w·ith league
GOntests at Sheboygan Nov.
28 and at Hammond Dec. 1,
the Goodyear Wingfoots re­turn
to Goodyear gym Dec. 3
to make their home debut
against Duquesne University.
Practise sessions have proven
the present Wingfoot sqund su­perior
to Inst year's but it will
have to be stronger if it is to be
a championship conte n der for
every other club in t he league has
b een strength en ed.
Oshkosh has added three uew
players including Bob Carpenter
of Southwestern who last year wns
select ed as the outstnncliug player
of the Nntional Inter-collegiate
tournament held at Kansas City.
Bill McDonald, Marquette, Heel
Evans, Iowa, nnd Mike Novak,
fo1·me1· Chicago Loy ola stnr nnd
last year with Chicago, are n ew
additions to the Sheboygnn Red­skins'
roster.
Opposition Is Tough
Ralph Va ughn, Southern Cali ­fornia's
great all -Ameri c:m, is one
of the many uew faces on the
Ha mmond squad which hns only
one holdover, Da r Hutchins, from
Inst year's t en m.
As' strong as the rival National
league clubs nre, the Wingf?ots
will not be able to case up agamst
Duquesne. They learned the wis-
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Death Finally
Overtakes Wirt
Tho "mnn who cu me b ack" is
gone n gu in-~or goo.c!. . .
Death , whi ch I·\ 1ll1am '~' ut,
Stock P reparation, e lud ed through
18 months in Frnncc with the A.
E. F . and for two years in army
hospitnls a brond and in U. S.
cnught up with him Monday. .
Long g iven up fo1· dead, " 'Ht
returned to Goorl>'Oar in l!l21 to
fi ncl his name on the bron ze tn bl ct
in Goo(l year Hall ns one of th ose
killed in action , watc hed work­m<'
n rh is<'l it off..
Fred Colley and Cecile Randolph
opening up Christmas gif t s -
below, Cecile t akes out a doll
which will make some youngster
h appy.
LOSES TREASURED WATCH
Some where around Pinnt II
lock er room Clar e n ce " ' ·
(Buddy ) Barnes, old tim0
~qu a(l mnn, r ece nt!~- lost the
watch he 'd carried fo r years.
He's m1xious to ge t it back , fo r
th e rc nsons :rn \·one who hns
Imel the same " :atch f or :-·ca rs
will apprecia t e. It 's a 21-jcwel
Tllinoi s, gol(l rasc. 'i\"il l t he
find er get in to uch " ·ith him
through t he Squad office, or
t urn i t in to t he Pol iPe depart ­ment
at the L ost and Found
lcs k?
Rush Suggestions
For Christmas
Money Now
If You Want to Pick Up Extra
Spending Money for Holidays
You Must Work Fast
The Suggestion Committee
souncls the warning that sugges­tions
must be submitted very soon
to be con sidered in time for
a "·n rds by Christmas.
The committ ee has about 30
suggestions on ha nd, but will wel­come
as many more as employees
can turn in in the next week.
During October the committee
pa icl out $1,232 to 60 suggestors
who0 e awards averaged $~0 . 50
ea ch.
Adclcd incentive is fumished by
th e fa.c t that th e re is still oppor­tunit
» to try for the Litchfi eld
Medal given for the year's b est
suggestion plus the awa1·d of $100
"-hirh nrrompanies it. The award
for scrond best idea is $65, while
third place brings the suggestor
$3;).
Also th ere is s till ti mr to get
in on the big money for th e year
for those who have snles or oper ­a
t ing or prodn r t idens whi ch arc
worth r nsh to Goodvcar in sav­ings
or imprm·ements.
BURGESS TO PLANT 2
Sherman Burgess, who came on
from the California Labor dept.
Inst summer, has b ee n nnmed
manager of Plant II L nbor dept. ,
responsible t o A. B. Matthews.
'.l'he Recreation Ass 'n is not a
Goorl ~·c nr group, nor pai·t of E m­plovccs
Actfriti es Committee, but
is 1;rnd up of public s pirited peo­ple
on the He ights, among th em
a 111un ber of Goodyearites. It was
stn rtcrl six Yen rs ngo b ~' n small
grn np of mc'n, has grown to large
prop or tions.
H1mti11g with two broth ers in
ln" - Monday he was kill<'d when a
gun was acciden ta lly . d i sc ~1 :ll'g ecl
"-hile t heY were p okmg rn t he
brnsh to d0rive ou t n 1·abbit. Wirt
wn s 47, leaves a "·idow and one
rla ugh t cr, Jm1 c.
[
Sherm, a California Squad g rad­uate,
h ns had nine years with t he
,·o m pn n~·, in vari ous diYisions of !......------------__; pe rso nnel a ncl pr oduction .
Goodyear Children Who
Look Forward to Big
Party Every Year Won't
be Disappointed
A huge storeroom in Good­year
Hall has the appearance
of being headquarters of
Santa Claus, for there a crew
of men is unpacking case
after case of toys for distri­bution
to Goodyear kiddies
at the annual Goodyear
Christmas party to be held
December 21 in the Goodyear
Gym.
A II of the toys, games and candy
have been bought and n early all
have b een received and unpncked,
while the rest of the big 01·der is
expected late this week .
Fred Colley, head of the annual
Christmas Pnrty, says the assort­ment
of gifts and candy is the
brst he has ever had and he feels
sure every one of the 18,000 or
more boys and girls attending the
party will be more than pleased.
H ave Committee of 100
Colley expects to announce the
pc1·so1mel of his committee of 100
soon-the committee that makes
it a point to see that everything
con nected with the annual event
runs smoothly .
'' '.l'he deco1·ations iu the Gym
and the lobbies of Goodyear Hall
will be different from anything
of the kind heretofore, '' said Col­le?
yestordny. "We're really
going to town this year in the
dec orative line. The kiddies, with
th eir fath ers and mothers, broth­ers
and sisters, will be most agree­a
bly surp rised when they e nter
Goodyenr Hall on December 21.
''And we will have plenty of
music all day,'' added Colley,
"for we have ananged for a tip ­[
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Meet Mackenroth,
New Store Chief
Her e 's D. R. Mack enrofh , r e­cently
made gen era l manage r of
all company
stores. A nn ti ve
of North Dakota,
he took engineer­ing
at the Uni·
v ersity of Min­n
esota, but went
into mer chandis­ing
aft er g radu­ation,
cam e t o
Goodyear fr om
Sears, Roebuck,
Mackenroth C h i c a g o t w o
y e a r s ago. He
likes golf, footb a ll, has five chil­dren
.
THE WINGFOOT CLAN.-PAGE 2
TWO XXV MEN HAIL I Fourteen Localites Awarded Quarter Century Pins I BURMA ROAD IS
FROM SAME TOWN ~~~~~~~~~~~MA~ELOFMAN'S
IN MARYLAND PERSEVERANCE
Frostburg Furnishes Two
Employees to Company
in Same Week
T"·o supen ·isors, Ed Masuga of
t he Tube Room, nnd Walter R.
Miller of Truck Ti re·, were among
the new 25-year men the fir st
1Yeek of t he month.
Masuga is a Pennsylvanian 1vho
worked in a U. S. Steel mine for
six years before coming here­started
as a ti re builder, went
th rough the Squadron, becnme in­spector,
did some accounting work
for engineering, wns LifeGuard
fo reman two years. He has a son
in the Jackson plant, a daughter
in the Akron office, a younger
daughter in high school a nd a boy
in grade school, owns his home on
Concord avenue. Being a Penn­sylvanian
he still likes to hunt,
usun lly in Canada.
.\noth er Keystone Stat c1· is Wal­ter
Miller, 'born in J efferson
t uunty, sta rted here in the tread
room, . pent time in solid tires cur­ing,
then in building tires-has
beC'H on super vision since Febru­a
ry, 1935, is manied, lives on
Hampden Road.
Spencer, W. Va., is the home
Town of many Guuclycarites, in ­d
ucling Eslie Lake, Mechanical
Goods curing. He left the farm
o drive a team for five years,
join ed the company in old passen­ger
tire curin g, has bc<'n curing
hose now for 17 years-is another
\\"oriel \Var vct ern n, serving over­seas
with t he 79th division,-owns
his home on lfoge1·s avenue and is
a wr estling and fight fan .
Marshall Little, truck tire heat­ers,
was born in P ennsylvania but
was a licensed stationary engineer
in \\' est Virginia at 15, learning
the trade from his father in the oil
fields. He was bumped off his job
as an engineer because of his age,
ancl becoming a fireman, he quit
after 10 months aucl joined the
Navy for a four-year hitch. Then
he came to Goodyear as a tire
fi nisher, went through the Squad­r
on, acted as drill master for draf­tees
at Seiberling Fi elcl during
World War I and has been in the
pit almost 20 years. He raises
fruit and flower s, likes motoring,
has one married daughter.
West Virginia claims John Mur­phy,
Experimental Job Shop, Plant
II. He was employed in a steel
mill at Mingo Junction for a year,
seven years for Westinghouse, two
years for a coal company on motor
r C'pairs, bri efer spells with the
Chesapeake & Ohio as a repairman,
macle boxes in a glass factory,
spent a brief period as a camp
cook, finally settled down at Good­~
·ea r-s tarting as a tire finisher,
going through the Squadron, then
back to the tire room. He has
been in Experim ental for 12 years
GOODYEARITES IN HOSPITALS
City Hospital : Lewis Fogle, Police;
Charles Metish, Warehouse; Mnry
Hoo,·er, Gas Masks ; Daniel Jones, Re·
turned Goods; J osephine Robbins, Bi·
cycle Tubes; Ralph Shaffer, P ensioner ;
Betty Manhardt, Molded Goods; Olay
Thompson, Wrapped Hose; Paul Ar­n
ica, Auto l\Iats; Ruhl Carper, En gr .
tores; F red Coburn, Trucking; Ed·
wnrd Bentley, Oure Tires; Harry
Hazlet t, Atlanta, Ga. Br.; John Krizo,
Truck & Airplane Building; Willis
Watkins, Cure; Marinn l\L Brou se, Gen­eral
Office; Blanche Swain, Wrapped
Hose.
Peoples Hospital: Sarah VanHorn ,
<ins Cell s ; Lawson Withers, Janitors;
Thomas \Vatson, Trends; Kn tie Zof­ch
nk, Janitors; H elen Ri chmond , Air·
foa m; Mildred Buennernan, Bicycle
Tires.
St. Thomas Hospital: George Bolclur,
Baln nce Tires; l\Iary Hamilton, Braided
Hose.
Left to right, front row-Adolph Anderson, Eslie Lake, Marshall F. Little, George F. Lampe. Back
row-Edward Masuga, John E. Croft, Walter R. Miller and John A. Murphy.
-owns his home on Shawnee Path, 1· lit>c·ouiing a rubber worke1·. Merl
likes hun ting and ganlening, hns is tl1e fat her of eight children,
two daughters in school. fh·e sons and three daughters. He
Adolph Anderson, Tread Room, lives at 441 Daniels Place.
born in Port Allegheny, Pa., Albert L. Martin, bead rno111
started his apprenticeship as a after completing high school and
glass blower at 13, fo~ l owed t ~iat a year at business co llege, worked
t rade for 18 years befo re conung 12 yea1·s for his father who oper­t?
Go~dy ea r-sta rt e d h e r ~ as a ates a geneml store at Sheakleys­tire
fimsher, has been on Ins pres- 1·iJJe Pa. is proud of the fact that
ent job in the tread room ~or ~he the 'st or~ now operated by a
past 18 months-has .a son m high brother still rarries the family
school and two married claughters name. Most of Martin 's service
- likes football ancl baseball. has been spent in the tire division.
Born down state, George F. He i the father of four sons, three
Lampe, Ai rbags, worked as in- married and one Ii ving at home­spector
for six years at The 396 The Brooklands.
Natio nal Cash Register Co., then
built t ires nt a competitive plant
fo r seven more, has been in the
tire room till recent years-owns
his home on Middlebury avenue­has
two manied daughter s, one
son, likes all outdoor sports.
Oldest of the 25 year men was
John E. Croft who came up from
hi s farm in Holmes county, ancl
who has spent his entire service in
the hose rnom, Plant II. He is a
widower, making his home with a
daughter on Route 10, has eight
chi ldren-five girls, three boys,
a ll married. One son ha s been
with Goodrich 36 years, one is a
farmer in Minnesota, the third is
in the steel mills at l\fassillon, 0.
John was quite a hunter and fish­Prm
an in the past.
Clarence H. Lehr, shipping clerk,
has spent all but six years of his
service in the shipping division,
was a shipping clerk a t Roscoe,
P n. before coming to Goodyear.
He is a native of Frostburg, Md.,
and a World \Var veteran, parti ci­pnting
i 11 f0111· mn.i or battles. He
owns his home at 201 Kryder
avenu e.
George Folk, tube room, also n
nntive of Frostburg, Md., was a
ronl min er nt Meyersdale, P a., be­for
e starting nt Goodyea1· as a
tube spli cer. Folk lives in his own
home nt 620 Blanrhe street. His
hohbi<'s a re baseball, basketball
nn<l plni-ing bridge.
Merl H . Zornes, tru ck tire prep­a
rn tion , " ·as·n r ln:v mii1er in >rrnth­cn1
Ohio, n b1·i <· k~· n 1·cl employep
nn<l fl ra ilronrl hrnkeman b<'fn re
Folie Baker, calender man, was
a farmer at ·his birthplace Cool­dlle,
Ohio, until he moved to Ak­ron
in 1914. Folie spent three
yem·s on the Mexican border
st:nting March, 1917, training re­cruits
for t he U. S. Army. He
lives on a two-acre farm near
Tallmadge.
Fred A. Stalder, wa.rmup mill
man, ha s spent his entire service
in the millroom. He was a mem­ber
of Company I , 4th division in
the World Wa r and spent a month
OYerseas. He is a native of S~ rdi s,
Ohio.
EXPORT MAN TOO
In some foreign cotmtries where
Gooclyea r has no direct factory
b1·anch, tires are
sometimes stored
in warehouses on
c011 signment, and
paid fo r as they
a re sold . Follow­ing
up these oper ­ntions
from nn
nrrounting stand­point
is A. 0.
Boosinger, new
2.5-yea r man,
A. O. Boosinger "·hose name was
a«c id c ntally
omitted from the Clan that week.
Born in nearby Brimfield, Boosin­ger
rnme to Goodyear from school
as a bookkeeper, took accounting
nt 11ight at Akron U. The pi n
wns giH•n l1im h)' R. G. Woodling,
111n11:1ger ~n l1• R nr<·onn t ing. in ARs't
f'o11.1pt101IN C. li. \\'eb<'rg's offlre.
Start Classes in
Report W riling
Preparation of Reports and
Customers' Letters May Be
Studied by Employes
Goodycar.ites who have occa­sion
to write cust omer letters, or
write 1·eports on t he progress of
prod uction or staff work, will be
in te rested in a new course on Re­port
Writing which stn rts Monday
at Goodyear Industrial Univer sity.
Neither job is as simple as it
sounds,-particula rly if you want
to 111a ke an effective r eply to a
custome1" or must make a report
whi ch a number of people must
study to keep th emselves informed
as to a par ticular situation.
A good letter, a report that
gives a brief, clear -cut picture of
the situation, makes a good im·
pressiou on the organization, or
its customer s. A rambling letter,
a report which isn't clear , makes
an a<lverse impression. Employees
a mbitious to get ahead will be
willing to spend an hour and a
half a week in learning how to do
a better job. There will be prac­tise
in dictating as well.
The rourse lasts six months.
Tbe tuition is $16, nud may be
paid in installm ents. Those inter­ested
should see the Registrar at
G. I. U. ancl reserve places.
HUGUELET FIRST SUPER
First superintendent of Plant II
(tires) was Ed Huguelet , one of
three brothers who had quite a
bit to do with the history of Good­year.
Eel retired several years
ago on nccount of his health.
Since t hen in turn t11e Plant has
hacl W. H. (Flip) Fleming, Leroy
'l'omkin son, Hank Gillen, J. P .
Mcin tire, nnd now R. E . Lee as
superinten<l ents.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE: Goodyear car rA d io, push
button 1t111ing. Goocl condition, will
Rl nny 1·11 r . $12. 011 11 .J8 - (;5R~.
Built Almost Entirely
By Coolie Labor, Says
Expert Who Viewed It
An interesting picture of the
f nmou ''Burma Road,'' much in
the war ne"·s rec· ently, was fu r­nished
by R. D. 'l'hompson, sales
manager for Goodyear-India, 011e
of the few men in the company
who has seen anything of it.
'l'hompson left last week for his
station after his triennial vaca­tion
in the States.
Thompson hasn't a ctnall~' driven
over the road. There's a 750-mile
stretch of it without service sta­tions
or hot clog stands, and a
visitor, even if he can get per ­mission
to go in, will have to haul
a trailer full of gasoline with him,
enough for t he round trip, and
may l1ave to sleep in his car at
times. Also the road is more than
a bit rough in places and subject
to landslides. So Thompson de­cided
there wasn't anybody he
wanted to see up there anyhow­it
was out of his territory.
Story of Patience
But it is still a great story of
human patience ancl rnsourc eful­ness,
as Thompson sees it. With
t heir sea ports occupied by the
Japanese the Chang Kai Shek gov­ernment
moved back into t he in­terior,
sought a back cloor to the
ontsicle world 1·ia the Indian
Ocean.
R. D. Thompson
A 1·ailroad ran from Rangoon
to Lashio, within 124 miles of the
Burma-China border, a nd a hi gh­way
connected ~t with t he ra i J.
head. All China would have to
do was to build a road through the
Himalayas, with elevations as
high as 11,000 feet, over country
some of it as rugged as Switzer­land.
The job was clone almost en­tirely
by hand, by tens of thou-ands
of coolies, hoeing down the
hill s ' sides, blasting the rock out
with dynamite st uffed in bamboo
pol es, earrying t he loose dirt for
t he ''fills'' in 'two basket s swung
from a pole on their shoulders,
carrying t he big rocks with an
ingenious arrangement of seven1l
poles. It was clone in record time.
As landslides came, 10,000 coo­lies
would spring up by magic,
part of them unloading waiting
truck. and carrying t heir supplies
11rnuncl the landslicle, trading loads
with trucks beyond, while the rest
woulcl carry off the tons of rock
:rncl cl eb1·is, put the rond in shape
Hgain . Perlrnps no bigger job has
been clone by hand in modern
times.
Thompson doesn't kn ow, of
course, if Good)·ear truck tires
fire bei ng userl on the Burma Roa cl .
It is n one of his busi ness what his
customers clo with their tires onre
they lrnve bought :111cl paid for
t hem. But the trnrks are rolling
on rubber ancl GoorlY<'fU' is a pop­ular
hrnnd ii1 th<' Enst.
THE WINGFOOT CLAN.-PAGE 3
_jA Tale I SURPRISE LUNCHEON
by Q FOR LOTTIE SMITH
~o st people around Akron·,
·shere John A. Shea, genial adver·
;ising expert, worked for several
·,·ea rs would believe, without affi·
~ aYit~, that he isn't working
nights on WPA at Los Angeles,
.fter leaving the facto ry.
.lohn 's an honest guy,-and be·
-ides he isn ' t t hat en ergetic. His
ob and his home, with three fine
kid~, and an occasional game of
6olf or poker, don't leave him
·iine enough.
And e ,·eryone in Goodyear­.'
aliforn ia knows he doesu 't rush
fr om the office and get his shovel
a rter the whistle blows. For one
,.. • hing he h:i - quite a bit of traYe!·
_ng to tlo oYer the far-fl ung Cah·
tornia territory.
- But when a letter came in to
J; im last "·eek from WP A head·
quarters, with the LA city address
·rossed off, a ncl a post office not~,
• ' TrY Goodyear'' it created a bit
of ta lk. John was away at the
' ime ancl t he letter was open ed, as
a matter of routine, a ncl someone
,aw it, long before John clid.
Did He Need Job?
The letter was a formal one,
directing him to 1·eport at WP A
,0aclqu:uters for interview, to be
>Ure he still n eeded WPA help. If
'1e dicln 't r eport, his name would
lie ta ken off t he list. If he was a
·ar Yeter an, which he is, he 'cl get
•' ~reci al consideration. If he was
;i lre a clv working he 'cl be a llowed
later to m:ike up t he time he lost
' ,. coming in . J ust a fon1ial
-i1eck ·up b~' the government.
But it wen t to the wrong John
':">hen. E ,·erybocly knew t hat. But
!he gang that stuck the wrong
-ticker on his car, a nd which let
!iim go around with the wrong
lrntton in his lapel fo r clays before
11e noticed it-:rnd which put a
, jcrn on his desk, ''Quiet, Genius .i t" \ \·ork " would make his life
1~1 ise rab l e anyhow. And clicl. Then
uhotostatecl t he lette1· ancl sent it
~n to Akron.
XOTE to John Shea-If the go·
i11g is too tough for you out in
•·a lifornia, maybe we can find
-omeone here willing to change
jobs- someone who cloesn 't mind
he terrible Los Angeles weather.
kron has become quite a winter
ceso rt since you left, with people
.-oming in from all over to en JOY
our go rgeous sun shine .. 'l'he. t_em·
pe rn t nre is 8'.l at this wntmg.
From YOUr olcl window you can see
the roses ancl honeysu ckles bloom·
ing in the cemetery acr oss the
, free t. Get up on t he roof and
you cm1 see the bnthers diving into 0the surf at Blue Pond, or loafing
on the beach getting a tan. Most
of the office gi l"!s wear shorts to
work now, excrpt a f ew b ow·
legged ones who go in_ fo r slack s.
Tennis is in f ull swmg, though
there were a couple of cases of
•1m stroke in tlie Ge nern I Office
Inst " ·eek. Th ere hn: n 't been n
r·loucl in th e skv for wee ks. The
mid-winter golf° tournament starts
~IoJJClay . Sha ll we enter your
namei ' Wire or air mail if y ou
Y>a nt to change an cl we 'II see if
,vp can't find some tough guy who
rloesn 't mind t he ice and snow
of Your country. - Signed- The
Wl ·ole Akron Adv. Dept.
Karl Fickes has been appointed
Ilqiartment Manager, Airship
Opern tions, with Jack Boettner
ns ehief pilot. ------
DEATHS
;< herwood H. Whitn.k er, Newark
'-alP ~ mnn , 45 y ears , <l~ e d ~iorristown,
l\ .. 1 .. is !!!\1l'\0 h·ed by his widow.
Cli fford Wnllnce, 50, truck tir.es,
1ii etl at his home in Ell et , 0 .. Service
from 1916, is surYi ved by widow, two
cr, JJi;:. an <l two dnug-ht.er s .
Lula E . Du,·n ll , 41, Hose room, Is
i:·nYiYe<l bv her clnughter.
P aul Se~ba ch. 64, llfnchine shop, 18
·,· ~arc:; een·ice.
. Leon L. Foster. 45, Plnnt ~I tires,
~e r Yic e "i nre 1921, is survi ved by
·,yjdow, n1H.l three children.
When Lottie Smith, secretary
to W. E. de Bruin, Law Depart­men
t, r vea led t he secret that she
11·oulc1 become a bride on Novem­ber
30, the news came as a sur·
prise, but the girls in her depar t ­ment,
as well as several in other
departments, returned the sur·
prise on Monday of this week,
when they invited her to a special
luncheon in a p1·ivate dining room
at Goodyear in honor of her ap·
proaching marriage.
Eighteen girls were in the party,
the table was attractively deco·
rated and t here were gifts galore
for t he bricle-to·be.
The bridegroom will be George
Taylor, who is associated with the
Fonl Motor Comp:rny. After a
short hon eymoon t rip the newly·
weds will reside in Detroit.
Miss Smi th lrns been with Good·
year seven years.
MEN WORKING
Serg't Fred Hohneck, Police
Dept., cracked back promptly at
Fred Wheeler, janitor forem an, as
predi cted, for t he practical joke
related in the previous Clan. Only
it misfir ed slightly, Ted Noss,
n.ight master mechanic, being the
innocent victim .
Noting that a ni gh t final ecli·
tion of t he Beacon was delivered
to Wheeler's office every night, to
be reacl cluring the supper hour,
the Sarge slipped in to t he office
the night aft er election, r emoved
:ill the "insides " from the paper,
substituting pages several days
old .
Happens though it was Noss'
paper; and Ted, set,tlin~ clown that
night to get final e l ec~1on r e tur~s,
turned agnin a ncl agam to stories
nm over in side, fai led to find them,
ti nallv not thinking to look at the
1late line, threw t he paper in the
waste ba ket, t ried to get Editor
John Knight on the phone to see
what kind of a paper he was put­ting
out, cloesn 't know up to now
what happened. So Wheeler got
off scot-free and now poor Sarge
will haYe Noss on his back too.
Floyd Taylor, tube room super­visor,
has acciclentally founcl a
waY to save mo1iey on his cigaret
bll(iget. H 'cl pi c k ~ d up some tiny
cartridges to put mto cigarets to
make them blow up, loacled one
ancl gave it to his first caller,
Eddie Lee of the G-3 quartet. The
rig ble"· up promptly in Ed's face,
ancl he " ·ent out ai1cl " ·a.m ed every·
hoclv. ~o 11obocl:v llOW rver asks
Floyd for a rigm·ct nn:v . more.
~fa v hn,·e to smoke 'cm Jnmself,
fn se :rn<l all.
GriHith Tells of Days When Radio Was New, Wonderful
Did you know that Goodyear
twice owned its own radio station t
Cashier R. W. Griffith, one of the
most consistent radio fans in the
company, found himself wander­ing
back down memory's lane the
other day. Kicking crystal sets
and superhetrodynes, vacuum
tubes and condensers, couplers and
tuning coils and de.tectors out of
the way he went back more than
30 years, to 1909, four years be·
fore he came to the company,
back to the clays when they called
it ''wireless. ''
At that time the neighbors on
Union pl. used to gather at his
home shortly before 9 o'clock at
night where the ''Griffith kid 11
had a home-made set in his room,
using nearly enough equipment to
build a Ford car. As the hour ap·
proached everyone sat still as a
mouse, watching the clock , wait·
ing. A few minutes before 9 they
would hear a faint ticking sound,
and then on the stroke of the hour
a distinct bong.
The Navy station at Arlington,
Va., opposite Washington, 350
miles away, had spoken its nightly
piece to listen ers a ll over the
world.
Heard Clock Strike
"It's wonderful,'' Griff's
neighbors agreed.
'l'he interest started then never
relaxed. He'd pick · up ship mes·
sages far at sea, in Morse code,
sometimes a.n SOS. He was one of
the early holders of a short wave
license, has held three, has talked
to fe llow amateurs in E urope and
in the Arctic Circle. He worked
with W. T. Van Orman, another
pioneer, in radio aeronautics, in
building a receiving set into a bal·
loon, listened as Van's friends
gath ered one night at the Willard
Battery Plant in East Cleveland
to send Van a greeting in the race
which had started several hours
earlier.
Van used the same set that year
Here and t here around the shop:
Han-y Beardshaw, tube room fore·
ma n, fe ll at last, is getting mar·
ried January 18-Bill Hoffman,
Stock Preparation is a Medina
County farmer ancl Boy Scout
leader-Louis Graham, bias cut­ters,
back from a long illness and
f eeling fine-Frank Johnson, Mill
Room is dahlia grower-Bill Mer­ritt,
Mill Room, is still trying to
play golf-Jerry Swartz, Waste
Cont rol, is r emodeling his home
and doing the work himself- Ja.ke
Carper, Banbury mixers, is short,
but a ll man- Al Vorhees, Calen­der
s, is always ready to battle for
stock-Shorty Lewis, Spreaders,
is b u s ~' ma.king balloon fabric and
throwing everybody out-Reggie
Moon, Night Super, always want·
ing to know why-They're calling
Red Peirce chef , he's a cooker of
tires-Ernest Neelis, breaker cal·
endrrs, is the proud possessor of a
cute little mustache, some say
hand painted-he just put in a
new gas furnace-no more ashes
to carry. Ray Hanning, Pliofilm,
is passi ng out cigars-proud daddy
of 9-lb. baby boy-wife ancl Junior
doing fine .
As the gang in Airplnne tires
sat clown and opened up their
lunch the other noon, J . Kline sud ·
rl Pnlv notirecl everybody looking
at him. Nothing in his parlrnge
but a pair of gloves a11cl a bottle
of rast or oil! "Must have picked
up the wrong package,'' h e sai.d .
''Too bn 1 you didn't en t the
gloves before you noti red the dif­fer
ence,' ' t hP · gnng sa i rl. '''!'h en
,·ou could have t ak en the castor
oil fo r dessert.''
Chief Conner has called a meet­ing
of divi sional basl'.etball ma~ ·
ngrrs fo r 5 p. m. nt lns offi ce Fn·
rln y.
Photographer and Cartoonist Schultz combine in t;bis picture to
show early radio pa.rties.
in E urope. Starting from Ant·
werp in a blinding storm, he
judged at midnight t hat he must
be approaching the Baltic sea.
Perhaps he'd better land before
he was driven into the ocean. He
set up his radio and a chart. He
got Madrid, turned the dial till the
sound came in loudest, marked the
direction. Then hP got Berlin,
marked that down, knew that he
must be at the intersection of the
two lines, check ed his map, found
he was n ear Bremen, tuned in
again, got Bremen just ahead.
Satisfied that he was heading di·
rect f or Sweden and making good
time, he stayed aloft, crossed the
Baltic, landed successfully near
Stockh olm the next day, won the
James Gordon Bennett Cup.
But we 're getting away from
Griffith.
Goodyear 's First Radio
''They had just completed one
of the earliest radio towers in the
country here when I came to Good·
year, " he said. "The equipment
was located in a room just back of
whe re Sala ry P er sonnel is now,
a ncl made a lot of racket. Similar
Choristers Will
Increase to 300
Success of Recent Concert
Encourages Leaders to
Increase Size of Group
E ncouraged by the enthu iastic
reception which met its recent con·
cert at Goodyear th ea te r, Good­year
Choristers will open thci r
ranks to a noth er J 00 or more
vo ices, to b ring the membership
up to around the 300 mn rk.
'!'his is a coming organi zation,
providing excell ent training, and
one tlrnt has nn inter esting future.
Immediate engagements ah ead a re
a program at the gym, sponsored
by the Forem en's Club on Dec. 7
at t he Goodyea r -Sheboygan bas·
ketball game; a nother at the
an nual Chri stmas party on Dec.
21, :incl a third on J an. J 2 at t he
nnn nal memoria l se n ·ires of the
25 Yea r Club at Good~·e nr Theater.
Membership is open to nil Good·
vearites and th eir immediate fam.
ili es. Send applications to Direc·
tor Ve rne Schiller, Inter Plant or
just r eport· in at rehear ·nls whirh
are held every T uesday night at
7 :45 p. m. at Room 346, Goodyem·
Hall.
ROLLS GOOD SCORE
I,ecl bv Edna Resh who r olled a
single gnme score of 2~7 pins, the
Double Eagle team of the Tues­day
Night Bo"l\-ling league col·
Ject ecl 797 pins, highest single
game team tot al of the sen. on.
Rcol'es of other tenm memhPrs
were Dorothy Dnr~· ah, 177;_Hel~n
C'onner. 182; C'nn1e A nrlrc1s, L5
nml }.f ilrlrerl Young, 116.
stations were set up in Detroit
and the Bowmanville, Canada fac·
tory. But it was never very satis­factory.
We knew less about
static then, had plenty of inter­feren
ce, and when there was an
electrical storm on everyone kept
at a safe distance. The station
was dismantled after the World
War broke out.
''The next Goodyear station was
opened up in 1922, when Cleve­land's
WTAM was taken over.
The advertising d e pa r t men t
thought radio might have value.
But it was too new, ancl range was
limited, ancl the company got a
chance to sell it, and did.
"It's a far cry from the radio
sets we kids used to build 30 years
ago to t hose i nstalled today on
t r ansport planes, where a pilot
getting lost can look around till he
picks up a radio beam, set his ship
in the lane between the dots and
clashes, ride it clown the beam into
the airport blinclfolclecl.
''But it's been a lot of fun
watching radio grow up,'' sighed
Griff, moving b ack toward his
tabul ating machines.
Christmas Party
(Concluded from Page 1) ­top
orchestra to discourse instru­mental
music, as well as a number
of vocal solos, duets and quartets.
In addition we a re to have a mixed
chorus of fifty or more voices­mcmbers
of t he Goodyear Choris·
t ers, uncl er t he direction of Verne
Srhill er. Ch ristmas music will be
t he order through out the clay."
Have Five Platforms
Five la rge platforms will be
lnclen with toys and games and
ca ndy, and ten lanes will be pro­vided
for t he crowds to facilitate
the distribution of the gifts.
The doors will be open at 8
o'clock in the morning, at which
time t he committee on gift distri­bution
will be ready to receive
the visitors-and, of course, Santa
Claus will be there in all his glory
to greet the kiddies an cl listen to
th eir stories r egarding th eir de­sires.
It is the plan of the distributors
of gifts to have all children pro­vid
ed with gifts b y 4 o'clock in
the afternoon, an cl Colley has sug­gested
that Gooclyearites who will
have chilrlren at the pnrty ·make it
a point to have the kiddies on
hand as early as possible.
Huge Christmas Tree
Colley said yesterday that he
already had the Christmas tree
selected and it measures about 40
feet in height, a ncl, a ccording to
Freel, the tree is to be decorated
in an unusually attractive manner
- eclipsing any tree decorations
ever seen at a previous Goodyear
Christmas party.
"We are planning fo r a grancl
time,'' said Colley, ":incl I ren lly
believe that the event t his yen r
will go down in Goodyea r hi Rtory
as one of tho outRtnnrling affairs
sponso recl by Good year. ''
THE WINGFOOT CLAN.-PAGE 4
Greatest Basketball Season • ID History Starts Shortly
-----------------------------------------------------------• ( onclnded from Page 1)
LIKE BOWLING
TWOSOMES; FORM
NEW CLUB
Scores May Not Be As
High As Others, But
Novices Get a Lot of
Fun Out of It
Goodyea r's u e w e s t bowling
group, men and their wives play­ing
Saturday nights, may uot turn
i 11 the year's highest scores, but
will have as much fuu out of the
gnme as a n~· league members.
Many a re new at the game, but
since it's a handicap affair, 110
one mi11ds.
Following last Wedn e sday
aftern oon's start t hey organized
}1 S the Goodyear Bowling club,
with dues of 50 cents a month to
be used for prizes and a windup
b,111quct at t he end of t he year.
Geo rge Menz, White Sidewall
til'cs, who rolled t he first ball
do\\'n t he alley when the Hall was
opened, 20 yea rs ago, is president.
Marga rct Parks, Production Con­trol,
who is t eamed up with Fred
Col ley, is secretary.
There is room for more players.
Rec either the offi cers or Ray
Det ri ck, if you want to join. F irst
e 1·eni ng 's scores :
l\Ir. & Mrs. John Gree nl enf ........ .. ..
Mr. & Mrs. Al Gerend ................... .
Mr. & l\Irs . George Menz .. ............ ..
Mr. & Mrs . Scobey ...................... ..
~Jr . Farre ll a nd Almu Knopp ....... .
~'re d Colley & Margar et Parks .. ..
l\(r . & Mrs. Maurice Sands .. ... ..... ..
Mr. & Mrs. Ray Russell ..... .......... .
I:Iowa rd ~'.lorgau & Connie Bevnn
Mr. & Mrs. Dan F inley .............. ..
ll!r. & llfrs . Robe r t Ri el ................ ..
l\Ir. & Mrs. H arvey Spencer ... .... .
896
891
861
860
824
820
800
768
740
717
713
583
LADIES WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Team W. L. Avg.
J ee pe rs ...................... ...... 10 5 521
Halligoa ns ........................ !J 6 529
Doclgoe rs .......................... 9 6 419
G·40 's ------ ........................ 8 7 445
Lass ies .. ......... ................. 7 8 480
No. 7 .............................. 4 11 534
]l(i s fit s ............................ 2 13 477
No. 8 ........................... ... 2 13 289
High Score Single Gnme: Fish er, 171.
High 3 -Game Totul: Fisher, 459 .
GIRLS TUESDAY LEAGUE
. Team W. L . Avg.
MarAthons ...................... 24 6 627
F.mernlds ........................ 2 1 9 6 37
Hi -Mi ler s ....... .. ............... 21 9 6 34
Douhle Engles ..... ........... 19 11 648
G-40' " ................... ......... 19 11 6 38
Sensatio ns ...................... 14 16 493
A irfo n.m .......................... 12 18 517
Hi -I,o's .............. ...... ........ 12 18 505
llforh . Goods Mdse ......... 11 19 533
On r1·ie rs ...... .................... 10 20 450
Rough Roll ers ................ 10 20 422
All Wen th e rs .................. 7 23 413
High Single Game : Edna R esh, 247.
H igh 3-Game Total: E dna R esh, 532.
. 'l'his is the hil\'h es t s ingle gnme roll ed
111 t he leugue th is season, al so t he high­est
three game totnl.
DEVELOPMENT DIVISION LEAGUE
Team W . L . Avg.
Drafting Room .............. 21 9 655
Mech. Goods .................. 19 11 684
Din smore' s Dubs .......... 16 14 682
Sperificntions .................. 16 14 712
LireGua rds ...................... 15 15 695
<1 he mi cnls ...... .. ............. ... 15 15 729
Ruporvi sion .................... 14 16 697
Rrsenrch ........................ 14 16 713
Pl iofilm .......................... .. 13 17 770
P laster Shop .................. 12 18 714
llfarh . Design ................ 12 18 6 18
'l' i rr Des i>?n .................. .. 12 18 702
Hi1<h Single Gnme-Minner, 195.
High 3·Gnme-Ooburn , 514 .
Hi gh Team Game- Drafting R oom
785 . •
H igh Teum 3-Gnme - Ohemicnls
2220.
GIRLS THURSDAY LEAGUE
Team W . L . Avg.
~-~ ·· .::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::i~ ~ ~~~
11uttrr Snipes ................ 17 JO 679
Doo•irs ............................ 15 12 647
Lrgon l it es ....... ................. 15 12 548
llforrhan1l ise .................... 15 12 655
Rir)•rle Tires .................. 14 J 8 620
Fnrtor.v Offi ce .............. :.14 l 8 640
Windoots ........................ 12 15 640
A irroam ............................ 8 19 4 92
.Trehrs ........ .. .................. 7 20 525
Double Eagles ................ 5 22 586
I
clom of t hat last year " -hen Du·
Captain Ben Stephens Will Have New Running Mate I t,~~s;~eea:~10caa~~:·e~ac~11 e;;~e .i~1·;;~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ni gh{ to win 41-38 in a game tha t
Ben Stephens (left) , scoring ace of last year, will team up with Jules Rivlin of Marshall at guard post.
Friars' Show to
Be Repeated
The Friars Auxiliary show
played to big houses at each per·
formance, was accla imed a s uc­cess,
with Directors Joe Ebner aud
Tom K elley getting general ac·
claim, as well as man,v of t he in·
dividuals who sta n ed in the pla,v.
One of the Wilev sisters won
the diamond ring f°or selling the
most tickets. Calls to repeat the
show have come in and fou t· nights
have al ready been t en tatively
booked, two in Canton and two
nights for the Daughte rs of
America.
BOWLING
OFFICE LEAGUE
November 11, 1940
W. L.
gmployPei:: Sto re ........ 19 R
Fabric T est ............ ...... 19 8
Mal e rinl s __________ ............ 16 J 1
llfec h. Goods De'" ...... 15 12
Drn Ft ing ...................... 14 rn
Poremen's Club ..... ... .. 13 14
Rent F:stnte .................. 13 14
AC'counting ................• I S 1 -1
Equipment Engrs ....... 12 15
~ rn eh inc D"sign .......... 1 l 16
A<'rount~ Pa.n1hl0 .... .... 1 l 16
~fcrchuncli se Di i;;t1'. ...... 6 2 1
High Scores of the Week
P c t.
.704
.704
.593
.556
.5 19
.4 81
.481
,4Rl
.444
.41)7
.407
. 222
High Indi1·id11al Single Gume-Rit·
t hnlr r (Ren l E s ta te)-223.
Iiigh Jndh:idunl 3- f·htnH" S(lr ies­Kram
er (Foremen's Olub) -588.
High rrenm. Singlo Gnme-Fot·cmen's
Ol uh- 946 .
BADMINTON CLUB HAS
MOVED HEADQUARTERS
Badminton club activities for
the remainder of the season will
be staged in Goodyear gym where
eight courts have been made avail­ab
le for play on Tuesday and
Thursday nights of each week .
Announcement of t he court
change from sixth fl oor of the hall
was made by Angus McNair, club
president, who a lso stated t hat
members this year will be per­mitted
to bring g uests with th em.
Members, however, will be re·
st l'icted to a total of four g nests
for tho seaso n.
Membership in the clnb is open
to a ll employees of the company
a nd th eir families. Membership
foe is $1 per perso11.
Present plans call for the hold ·
i ng of 011e "social night" each
month.
H. W. (Red) Boigegrain, one of
the best bowlers arouml the plant,
had an off day last week and rolled
a measly 99, and has hacl to take
a lot of razzing about thnt from
f el Ki lgore, Bob Brown a nd
ot hC' rs in the department.
FOR RENT: Cienn , wnrm room .
Ren u t :v- r cst mu ttress and high quality
furn ishin gs. Centrnl1y located , nmp] e
spa ce for pm·king cm· or gn ra~ e space
rn n be provided . $3 p e1· week. 402
l•:. llfnrk et St.
Women's Activities
The Friars' Auxiliary will visit
the Coca'-Cola plant on K. Hi gh st .,
by invitation , Dec. 5 at 1 :30, the
trip to be fo llowed by luncheon
and ca rd s. Goodyear wives and
f riends arn i nvited. For informa·
tion call the hostesses, Mrs. T. E.
I< elley, J E -6873 or Mrs. J oe Ebner,
BL-3850. Mrs. Edgar Crosley will
have cha rge of the table prizes.
The Girls ' Wednesday Night
Bridge Club will hold a mixed
pa rty next Wednesday night, with
prizes for members, a lso door and
gt10 t prizes. Ad miss ion is 25
cents. Lnst sess ion winne rs were
Cl'cilia Rnrdin, Lillis Nelson,
F reel a SC'e a nd Alva Luco.
GIRLS' THURSDAY NIGHT
BOWLING LEAGUE SCORES
Goodyear is enterin g a team
from the Gi rls' Thursda? Night
league in the Centi·al States Wom­en's
Bow Ii ng TournamC' nt whi ch
opens in ' Clc1·elnnrl on Ko,·ember
23, J !HO. The fh·e high bowlers
a re en ter!'rl.
T,n urn llf r·ll faR t c rs. ('apt ....... .
H l nn chP D ndi;; .............. .
Rnhy J-In n i.!rnn ................. .
\ .\"flJ'OO'e
. 155 ~
F loss Anson ............................ ..
15.J.
15.J.
1 5~
Vh·inn Eggt s ton ....... . 1.J.9
FOR RA LB: New g-irl 1s bike. r en~on·
ub l . BL ·8~36.
ll'asn 't decided un til the closing
minutes of action.
'oach ''Chick '' Da ,·ies has his
entire varsity squad of 1939·40
back t his year. It is the same
quintet which was one of the
nation's top ranking collegiate
clubs. Duquesne won 21 of 23
gmnes, losing twice to Indiana.
The fi rst loss to Indiana was in
the regular season when the
Hoosiers came from behind a 12·
point deficit iu the second ha lf to
win 52-51. Indiana won the sec·
ond meeting in the N. C. A. A.
t ournnment by nine points but the
nuHgin wasn 't piled up until the
last fou r minutes.
Pittsburgh Is Stronger
Repo rts from Pittsburgh are to
the effect t hat sophomore talent is
press ing t hree of t he r eturning
varsity men to the limit to retain
their positions.
Goodyear fa ns probably well
remember t he shot making skill
of Moe Beck er and the fast streak·
ing Ed Milkovich who made many
of ·wingfoot players look slow in
comparison to his speed.
Coach Ray Detrick hasn't ~·et
d cided on his varsity combination
but to all appearances Beu Steph ·
ens i a sure starter at a gua rd
post, John P elkington at center
and E ugene Anderson at forward.
Jules Rivlin, form er Marshall ace
a ncl Howard Vocke are batt ling
for the job as Stephens' running
mate at guard. J ake Nagode,
Marvin Huffman and Jim Mont·
gomery are in a three-way figh t
for the open forward post. Art
Anderson and John \Viggers loom
as most capa ble subst itutes fo r
P clkington at ce nt er.
Goocl ~· ea r will fn ee , 'he bo.1·ga11
Redskins at Good,v l'n r g,vm Dec. "i
in th ('ir first home league game.
Buy Season Ticket
Before First Game
Basketball fa ns are advised t hat
Dec. 3, date of the opening basket ·
bnll gnme with Duquesne unive r·
s i t ~· , will be t he last for purchase
of se nson tickets on the time pay·
ment plan .
Season genera l nclmission tickets
sell for $3.50 :.111cl season rese n ·ed
seats $5. Single game admission
will be 40 cents gen eral admission ,
60 cents for reserved and 50 ce nts
general admission aud 75 cents re ·
served for doubleheaders aud Fire·
stone games.
BUY A SEASON TICKET
AND SA VE MONEY.
Here's the schedule:
AT HOJ\IE
*Dec. 3-Duqnesne
Dec. 7-She bo,vgnn
Dec. 13-0 shkosh
Fires tone , . . Det ro it
Dec. 17- Hummon cl
Dec. 27 01· 28-0 h icngo
"11!• Fir e~ t on e vs. Sphas
J a n . 7-Fire!i;to ne
Jun. l R-De troi t
•Jan. 17- 0pen
Jnn. 22- H nm mond
•Jn-n. 29-0pen
F eb. 3-Sheho)·guu
Feb. 8-Detroit
F e b. 11-0shko•h
Feb. 15-0hicago
F eb . 22-Firestone
AWAY
No''· 27-0~ hk osh
Nov.28-Shehorgnn
Dec. 1-Hnmmond
lilit:•nee. 23-Fireston e
Jan. 2-Sh eboy.i;ran
Jnn. 4-0shko•h
.Tan. 5-Hnmmonrl
Jnn. JO-Detroi t
Jan. 15-Chi rngo
**<'tTn n. 25-Fireston e­Feh.
5-0h icag-o
Feb. 2 7-Detrn it
"'Non Lengue Gnme
~1
"' Ten tu th·e
':1 ~'* To hr plnyecl nt Goodyear Gym.

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PROTECT OUR GOOD NAME
\ 'ol. 29 AKRON. OHCO. WEDNESDAY, XO\'KMBER 20, 1940 To. 24
Annual Christmas Party Set for Saturday, December 21 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-=~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-=:__~~~~·
Veteran Back I OPEN BASKETBALL I
·----SEASON AT HOME
Howard Vocke will play for­ward.
DRUM MAJORETTES
WILL PIROUETTE
IN GOODYEAR GYM
Heights Recreation Ass'n
Will Repeat Show Which
Made Big Hit Last Year
Gooclycar Heights Recreation
Ass 'n, which made a ten-strike
a year ago by staging a contest
of°high school bands, drum majors
and 111njorettes a t Goodyear Ha ll,
will stage a similar show there
this year on Dec. 6.
All t en public high schools and
St. Vincent's will be represented,
a nd again it is expected that the
g,rn1na sium will be filled, so come
ea rly . The basketball bleachers
will be in place for tho game on
tho following night and Bob Wil­son,
popul ar 'A'ADC announcer ,
wi 11 cove1· the · ev ent by loud
s peak er .
WITH DUQUESNE U
New Wlngfoot Squad Is
Strong, But it Will Have
to Be, Against Tough
Opponents
Opening their 1940-41
National Basketball league
season at Oshkosh Nov. 27
and following w·ith league
GOntests at Sheboygan Nov.
28 and at Hammond Dec. 1,
the Goodyear Wingfoots re­turn
to Goodyear gym Dec. 3
to make their home debut
against Duquesne University.
Practise sessions have proven
the present Wingfoot sqund su­perior
to Inst year's but it will
have to be stronger if it is to be
a championship conte n der for
every other club in t he league has
b een strength en ed.
Oshkosh has added three uew
players including Bob Carpenter
of Southwestern who last year wns
select ed as the outstnncliug player
of the Nntional Inter-collegiate
tournament held at Kansas City.
Bill McDonald, Marquette, Heel
Evans, Iowa, nnd Mike Novak,
fo1·me1· Chicago Loy ola stnr nnd
last year with Chicago, are n ew
additions to the Sheboygnn Red­skins'
roster.
Opposition Is Tough
Ralph Va ughn, Southern Cali ­fornia's
great all -Ameri c:m, is one
of the many uew faces on the
Ha mmond squad which hns only
one holdover, Da r Hutchins, from
Inst year's t en m.
As' strong as the rival National
league clubs nre, the Wingf?ots
will not be able to case up agamst
Duquesne. They learned the wis-
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Death Finally
Overtakes Wirt
Tho "mnn who cu me b ack" is
gone n gu in-~or goo.c!. . .
Death , whi ch I·\ 1ll1am '~' ut,
Stock P reparation, e lud ed through
18 months in Frnncc with the A.
E. F . and for two years in army
hospitnls a brond and in U. S.
cnught up with him Monday. .
Long g iven up fo1· dead, " 'Ht
returned to Goorl>'Oar in l!l21 to
fi ncl his name on the bron ze tn bl ct
in Goo(l year Hall ns one of th ose
killed in action , watc hed work­mc·ouiing a rubber worke1·. Merl
likes hun ting and ganlening, hns is tl1e fat her of eight children,
two daughters in school. fh·e sons and three daughters. He
Adolph Anderson, Tread Room, lives at 441 Daniels Place.
born in Port Allegheny, Pa., Albert L. Martin, bead rno111
started his apprenticeship as a after completing high school and
glass blower at 13, fo~ l owed t ~iat a year at business co llege, worked
t rade for 18 years befo re conung 12 yea1·s for his father who oper­t?
Go~dy ea r-sta rt e d h e r ~ as a ates a geneml store at Sheakleys­tire
fimsher, has been on Ins pres- 1·iJJe Pa. is proud of the fact that
ent job in the tread room ~or ~he the 'st or~ now operated by a
past 18 months-has .a son m high brother still rarries the family
school and two married claughters name. Most of Martin 's service
- likes football ancl baseball. has been spent in the tire division.
Born down state, George F. He i the father of four sons, three
Lampe, Ai rbags, worked as in- married and one Ii ving at home­spector
for six years at The 396 The Brooklands.
Natio nal Cash Register Co., then
built t ires nt a competitive plant
fo r seven more, has been in the
tire room till recent years-owns
his home on Middlebury avenue­has
two manied daughter s, one
son, likes all outdoor sports.
Oldest of the 25 year men was
John E. Croft who came up from
hi s farm in Holmes county, ancl
who has spent his entire service in
the hose rnom, Plant II. He is a
widower, making his home with a
daughter on Route 10, has eight
chi ldren-five girls, three boys,
a ll married. One son ha s been
with Goodrich 36 years, one is a
farmer in Minnesota, the third is
in the steel mills at l\fassillon, 0.
John was quite a hunter and fish­Prm
an in the past.
Clarence H. Lehr, shipping clerk,
has spent all but six years of his
service in the shipping division,
was a shipping clerk a t Roscoe,
P n. before coming to Goodyear.
He is a native of Frostburg, Md.,
and a World \Var veteran, parti ci­pnting
i 11 f0111· mn.i or battles. He
owns his home at 201 Kryder
avenu e.
George Folk, tube room, also n
nntive of Frostburg, Md., was a
ronl min er nt Meyersdale, P a., be­for
e starting nt Goodyea1· as a
tube spli cer. Folk lives in his own
home nt 620 Blanrhe street. His
hohbirrnth­cn1
Ohio, n b1·i Ure he still n eeded WPA help. If
'1e dicln 't r eport, his name would
lie ta ken off t he list. If he was a
·ar Yeter an, which he is, he 'cl get
•' ~reci al consideration. If he was
;i lre a clv working he 'cl be a llowed
later to m:ike up t he time he lost
' ,. coming in . J ust a fon1ial
-i1eck ·up b~' the government.
But it wen t to the wrong John
':">hen. E ,·erybocly knew t hat. But
!he gang that stuck the wrong
-ticker on his car, a nd which let
!iim go around with the wrong
lrntton in his lapel fo r clays before
11e noticed it-:rnd which put a
, jcrn on his desk, ''Quiet, Genius .i t" \ \·ork " would make his life
1~1 ise rab l e anyhow. And clicl. Then
uhotostatecl t he lette1· ancl sent it
~n to Akron.
XOTE to John Shea-If the go·
i11g is too tough for you out in
•·a lifornia, maybe we can find
-omeone here willing to change
jobs- someone who cloesn 't mind
he terrible Los Angeles weather.
kron has become quite a winter
ceso rt since you left, with people
.-oming in from all over to en JOY
our go rgeous sun shine .. 'l'he. t_em·
pe rn t nre is 8'.l at this wntmg.
From YOUr olcl window you can see
the roses ancl honeysu ckles bloom·
ing in the cemetery acr oss the
, free t. Get up on t he roof and
you cm1 see the bnthers diving into 0the surf at Blue Pond, or loafing
on the beach getting a tan. Most
of the office gi l"!s wear shorts to
work now, excrpt a f ew b ow·
legged ones who go in_ fo r slack s.
Tennis is in f ull swmg, though
there were a couple of cases of
•1m stroke in tlie Ge nern I Office
Inst " ·eek. Th ere hn: n 't been n
r·loucl in th e skv for wee ks. The
mid-winter golf° tournament starts
~IoJJClay . Sha ll we enter your
namei ' Wire or air mail if y ou
Y>a nt to change an cl we 'II see if
,vp can't find some tough guy who
rloesn 't mind t he ice and snow
of Your country. - Signed- The
Wl ·ole Akron Adv. Dept.
Karl Fickes has been appointed
Ilqiartment Manager, Airship
Opern tions, with Jack Boettner
ns ehief pilot. ------
DEATHS
;< herwood H. Whitn.k er, Newark
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